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PATENTED SEPT. 29,1903.

E. J. GOOPBR. NEWSPAPER PAGE.

APPLICATION Hum JULY 9, 1900.

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UNITED STATES Patented September 29, 1903.

EDWIN JAMES COOPER, or WIMBLnDON', ENGLAND.

NEWSPAPER-PAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 740,242, dated $eptemher 29, 1903.

Application filed July 9, 1900. Serial No. 23,066- (llo modelJ To all whom, it Hui/y concern.- I

Be it known that I, EDWIN JAMES COOPER, a British subject, residing at No. 11 Rosslyu Villas, Delamere road, Wimbledon, in the county of Surrey, England, have invented a new and useful Newspaper-Page, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates'to the pages of newspapers of too great a size to be perused conveniently without being first by the reader longitudinally and transversely folded or dou bled back flat. Now in so folding or doubling the page of a newspaper back preparatory to perusing it (or rather half of it); the

reader necessariiy'has of course to make the folds down and across certain parts of the reading matter, and having read that half of the page in order to peruse the parts down which the longitudinal fold was made (as well as to peruse the rest of that half of the page) he has to unfold the page and down and across matter that he has perused already to retold it. In this way the folding, unfolding, and refolding demanded of the reader becomes in the case of a newspaper possess-.

ing an average number of pages very considerable, wasting time, and, moreover, being vexatious and fatiguing. Where of course the reader instead of first folding the page back longitudinally and then transversely adopts the opposite course-that of folding the page first transversely and then longituninally-the expenditure of time and trouble is greater still.

Now the object of my invention is to reduce the folding, unfolding, and refolding I have described to a minimum in order that the printed matter on the page may be pe- This desirable result 1 effect in a resents the folio or number of the page. The horizontal dotted space D shows the position of the running head i. e., the title, date, and the like. The lines marked E and similar ones indicate lines separating the columns of matter from each other.

F represents a line along the page between the running head and the top of the columns of matter.

page invented by me has a space G G running downward longitudinally and one H-H ru nnin g crosswise transversely. These spaces I call folding-spaces, and it is by means of them that I achieve the object of my in vention, for, aswill be readily understood,

first folded back fiat along the longitudinal folding-space and then folded back flat along the transverse folding-space, or, rather, along one half of it, all the contents of the page on one side of the longitudinal folding-space namely,whichever side he outermost-may be perused without the reader having to unfold and retold the page further. other half of the contents of the pagenamely, the matter on the other side of the longitudinal folding-spaceto be perused, all that is re quired is for the page to be first unfolded transversely, then turned over, and then folded back transversely in the opposite direction to that in which it was transversely folded before. The minimum width of a folding-space I make just sufficient when the entire bulk of the newspaper has, as above described, been folded for reading to permit of the matter nearest the folding-space being perused easily onthe newspaper being held by handor other-. Wise in a stationary manner straight in front of the reader.

As will be understood, the purpose of my invention-namely, the facilitating of the reading of large newspaper-pages by the minimizing of the necessary folding-may, albeit not so well, beachieved by the employment of only the longitudinal foldingspace and not of the transverse one as well* that is to say, if a page in which there is a longitudinal folding-space be first folded back fiat along that space and then folded back fiat in half transversely it is possible for the reading matter to be perused almost if a page of reading-matter so arranged be- In order for the Now it will be seen that the newspaper- Ice as easily as though where the. transverse fold is made there were a folding-space. Hence I do not invariably employ the transverse folding-space,the only folding-space ab- Lg. solutely essential being the longitudinal one.

I am aware that reading matter is fre-,

- held in the hand, Without its being doubled back flat first longitudinally and then transversely, or vice versa, to a quarter of its size; and its columns of letterpress being divided into two groups by a longitudinal foldingspace located in the center of the page and sufficiently wide to allow the page to be doubled back flat, substantially as described.

2. A printed page constituting one of a number contained in the same publication and having its columns of letterpress arranged in one direction-namely, to read from top to bottomas in the case of an ordinary newspaper; said page being too large to be perused conveniently, while being held in the hand, without its being doubled back flat first longitudinally and then transversely, or vice versa, to a quarter of its size; and its columns of letterpress being divided into two groups by a longitudinal folding-space located in the center of the page and sufficiently Wide to allow the entire bulk of the publication to be doubled back fiat, substantially as described.

3. A printed page having its columns of letterpress arranged in one direction-namely, to read from top to bottom-as in the case of an ordinary newspaper; said page being too large to be perused conveniently, while being heldin the hand, without its being doubled back flat first longitudinally and then transversely, or vice versa, to a quarter .of its size; and its columns of letterpress being divided into two groups by alongitudinal folding-space located near the center of the page and sufficiently wide to allow the page to be doubled back fiat, substantially as described.

4. A printed page constituting one of a number contained in the same publication and having its columns of letterpress arranged in one direction-namely, to read from top to bottom-as in the case of an ordinary newspaper; said page being too large to be perused conveniently, while being held in the hand, without its being doubled back flat first longitudinally and then transversely, or vice versa, to a quarter of its size; and its columns of letterpress being divided into two groups by a longitudinal folding-space? located near the center of the page and sufficiently wide to allow the entire bulk of the publication to be doubled back fiat, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ED WIN JAMES COOPER.

Witnesses:

H. D. J AMESON, A. NUTTING. 

